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AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
New Technology
May 13 2009, 7:21 PM EDT | Post edited: May 13 2009, 7:21 PM EDT
Isn't there a technology out there, that every time someone steps on it it creates a small electrical charge?

Could we maybe install that into the floors of our fortresses, and if we can manage it outside where the zombies are constantly shuffling around?
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John_234
John_234
1. RE: New Technology
May 13 2009, 9:54 PM EDT | Post edited: May 13 2009, 9:54 PM EDT
"Isn't there a technology out there, that every time someone steps on it it creates a small electrical charge?

Could we maybe install that into the floors of our fortresses, and if we can manage it outside where the zombies are constantly shuffling around?"
Pretty much get an electric fence and lay it across the ground?
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DevilNuts
DevilNuts
2. RE: New Technology
May 13 2009, 9:57 PM EDT | Post edited: May 13 2009, 9:57 PM EDT
does he mean as a power source? Do you find this valuable?    
byates
byates
3. RE: New Technology
May 13 2009, 10:11 PM EDT | Post edited: May 13 2009, 10:11 PM EDT
Old Technology, even by my standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric
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timberrattler
timberrattler
4. RE: New Technology
May 13 2009, 11:46 PM EDT | Post edited: May 13 2009, 11:46 PM EDT
"Isn't there a technology out there, that every time someone steps on it it creates a small electrical charge?

Could we maybe install that into the floors of our fortresses, and if we can manage it outside where the zombies are constantly shuffling around?"
Not following where your going with this. You could set up an electric fence but I don't know how that would effect the undead. The wire would work best strung one foot off the ground. I've seen that example here before and always liked the idea. Tin cans with rocks to make an primitive alarm system (Also not my idea but a good one) would be more valuable than shocking something that doesn't feel pain.

You could shuffle your feet across a carpeted floor and zap them with static electricity too. Kidding, just kidding.
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AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
5. RE: New Technology
May 14 2009, 12:00 AM EDT | Post edited: May 14 2009, 12:00 AM EDT
"Not following where your going with this. You could set up an electric fence but I don't know how that would effect the undead. The wire would work best strung one foot off the ground. I've seen that example here before and always liked the idea. Tin cans with rocks to make an primitive alarm system (Also not my idea but a good one) would be more valuable than shocking something that doesn't feel pain.

You could shuffle your feet across a carpeted floor and zap them with static electricity too. Kidding, just kidding."
Not an alarm system, but a power generator. It generates electricity, with each footstep, use something like that, and you can power lights and other things.

Electricity + zombies: shouldn't work too well. thats why I dont plan on electric fences...

Give me time to find the article.
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AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
6. RE: New Technology
May 14 2009, 12:04 AM EDT | Post edited: May 14 2009, 12:04 AM EDT
This is similar to what I was thinking...
http://hackaday.com/2008/06/20/dance-floor-power-generation/
the original article I found was in a popular science magazine.
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DevilNuts
DevilNuts
7. RE: New Technology
May 14 2009, 6:52 AM EDT | Post edited: May 14 2009, 6:52 AM EDT
It seems impractical. For this to work, you WANT zombies shuffling around. And by all accepted logic if you have zombies shuffling around you are not in good shape. You will have effectively trapped yourself for the sake of a lightbulb turning on. Do you find this valuable?    
AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
8. RE: New Technology
May 14 2009, 10:16 PM EDT | Post edited: May 14 2009, 10:16 PM EDT
If we could say... have a pen of animals, and let them run around on it...
or just use it as regular flooring, you know, inside...

This is not limited to sticking it outside where the zombies are.
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thebayouboy
thebayouboy
9. RE: New Technology
May 14 2009, 10:24 PM EDT | Post edited: May 14 2009, 10:24 PM EDT
Good for main kitchen area also where people will be cooking and cleaning. Do you find this valuable?    
AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
10. RE: New Technology
May 17 2009, 3:08 PM EDT | Post edited: May 17 2009, 3:08 PM EDT
"Good for main kitchen area also where people will be cooking and cleaning."
True that... True that...
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DevilNuts
DevilNuts
11. RE: New Technology
May 17 2009, 3:45 PM EDT | Post edited: May 17 2009, 3:45 PM EDT
Try to find some reference links on this technology. I would be interested in seeing how much foot traffic is necessary to generate a decent amount of electricity. Do you find this valuable?    
Kaikelx
Kaikelx
12. RE: New Technology
May 17 2009, 4:11 PM EDT | Post edited: May 17 2009, 4:11 PM EDT
Same here, I am quite suprised I haven't heard of this before. Do you find this valuable?    
AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
13. RE: New Technology
May 17 2009, 4:50 PM EDT | Post edited: May 17 2009, 4:50 PM EDT
I remember the first time I heard of it it was in popular science...

maybe start there?
I know they had plans to install it onto the sidewalk of a city, even if it was just for the asthetics...
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DevilNuts
DevilNuts
14. RE: New Technology
May 17 2009, 5:06 PM EDT | Post edited: May 17 2009, 5:06 PM EDT
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maybe start there?"
It's your thread, why don't you do the leg work?
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Whybother08
Whybother08
15. RE: New Technology
May 17 2009, 5:15 PM EDT | Post edited: May 17 2009, 5:15 PM EDT
If you apply pressure on certian materials, one of them being quartz, yes, it creates a small electrical charge. But the charge is miniscule, enough to, say, power an analog watch. Do you find this valuable?    
AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
16. RE: New Technology
May 18 2009, 1:13 AM EDT | Post edited: May 18 2009, 1:13 AM EDT
to DevilNuts:
I am trying...

To Whybother08: but that charge can build up.
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3DayAsylum
3DayAsylum
17. RE: New Technology
May 18 2009, 1:17 AM EDT | Post edited: May 18 2009, 1:17 AM EDT
Think about this: giant hamster wheels. Do you find this valuable?    
AndrewNakamura
AndrewNakamura
18. RE: New Technology
May 18 2009, 8:25 PM EDT | Post edited: May 18 2009, 8:25 PM EDT
... we could probably build a perpetual motion machine that generates electricity... of any charge. if we do that enough, we will have energy from literally nothing!

And giant hamster wheels... you mean the water wheels right? (or whatever they are called... the ones at places like grain mills...)

GO HAMSTER WHEELS!
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inu-dude25
inu-dude25
19. RE: New Technology
May 18 2009, 9:31 PM EDT | Post edited: May 18 2009, 9:31 PM EDT
"... we could probably build a perpetual motion machine that generates electricity... of any charge. if we do that enough, we will have energy from literally nothing!

And giant hamster wheels... you mean the water wheels right? (or whatever they are called... the ones at places like grain mills...)

GO HAMSTER WHEELS!"
No, the ones a hamster runs around in. Like the ones in the new Kia commercial with the giant hamsters.
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